Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart

Summary: &Quot;Things Fall Apart", set in Nigeria about a century ago, is widely regarded as Chinua Achebe's masterpiece. Considered one of the most broadly read African novels, Achebe's work responded to the two-dimensional caricatures of Africans that often dominated Western literature. This guide contains a selection of contemporary criticism of this novel.

Record details

OCLC: ocn556295473
ISBN: 9781604135817 ((hardcover: alk. paper) : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1438130449 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781438130446 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 221 p.)
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Edition: New ed.
Publisher: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Chinua Achebe writing culture: representations of gender and tradition in Things fall apart / Kwadwo Osei-Nyame -- The portrayal of Igbo culture in Zulu: a descriptive analysis of the translation of Achebe's Things fall apart into Zulu -- D.N. Mkhize -- The plight of a hero in Achebe's Things fall apart / Patrick C. Nnoromele -- Undignified details: the colonial subject of law / Ravit Reichman -- "A mouth with which to tell the story": silence, violence, and speech in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Realising irony's post/colonial promise: global sense and local meaning in Things fall apart and "Ruins of a great house" / Mac Fenwick -- Making use of the past in Things fall apart / Oliver Lovesey -- The depiction of masculinity in classic Nigerian literature / Frank Salamone -- Problematizing polygyny in the historical novels of Chinua Achebe: the role of the Western feminist scholar / Andrea Powell Wolfe -- The possibilities and pitfalls of ethnographic readings: narrative complexity in Things fall apart / Carey Snyder.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.